Ryan Potulny

Ryan Potulny
Date of birth	5th September 1984
place of birth	Grand Forks , North Dakota , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 3rd round, 87th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
2001-2003	Lincoln Stars
2003-2006	University of Minnesota
2006-2008	Philadelphia Phantoms
2008-2009	Springfield Falcons
2009-2010	Edmonton Oilers
2010-2011	Rockford IceHogs
2011	Binghamton Senators
2011-2014	Hershey Bears
2014-2015	Hartford Wolf Pack
2015-2016	Pelicans
2016	Mountfield HK
2016-2017	EHC Liwest Black Wings Linz
since 2017	Braehead clan

Ryan Potulny (born September 5, 1984 in Grand Forks , North Dakota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Braehead Clan in the British Elite Ice Hockey League since August 2017 . His older brother Grant is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Ryan Potulny began his career as a hockey player with the Lincoln Stars, for which he was active from 2001 to 2003 in the United States Hockey League . He was then selected in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft in the third round as the 87th player of the Philadelphia Flyers . Initially, however, the attacker played for three years for the University of Minnesota , with which he won the championship of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association in the 2003/04 season . After his final season at the University of Minnesota was Potulny for Hobey Baker Award nominated . Towards the end of the 2005/06 season he made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers, for whom he prepared a goal in two games.

Potulny in the Edmonton Oilers Jersey (2010)

From 2006 to 2008 Potulny ran parallel for the Philadelphia Flyers in the NHL and their farm team , the Philadelphia Phantoms in the American Hockey League . For the Phantoms he scored the 3-2 winner in the game against the Albany River Rats on April 24, 2008 after 82:58 minutes in overtime . This was the longest overtime in the history of the AHL. On June 6, 2008 in exchange for Danny Syvret to the Edmonton Oilers , for which he gave three templates in eight games in the 2008/09 season . However, he spent the rest of the season in their AHL farm team Springfield Falcons . In the following season Potulny received significantly more ice age with the Oilers in the NHL and was used in 64 encounters in which he reached a balance of 32 points. In September 2010 he signed a contract with the Chicago Blackhawks as a free agent . They mainly used him in the farm team at the Rockford IceHogs , where the attacker was set as a regular. At the end of February 2011, shortly before the trade deadline, the Blackhawks exchanged him with the Ottawa Senators , who sent him to the Binghamton Senators' farm team .

On July 1, 2011, Potulny signed a contract with the Washington Capitals and was used exclusively for the Hershey Bears in the AHL for the next three years .

In August 2014, he received a one-year contract with the Hartford Wolf Pack .

In July 2015 Potulny left North America and was signed by the Pelicans from the Finnish Liiga for one year.

International

Potulny took part in the 2010 World Cup with the US national team. The attacker scored two goals and two assists in six World Cup games .

Achievements and Awards

2003 USHL First All-Star Team 2003 USHL Player of the Year 2004 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of Minnesota 2006 WCHA First All-Star Team

2006 NCAA West First All-American Team 2009 AHL All-Star Classic 2011 Calder Cup win with the Binghamton Senators

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	6th	126	22nd	27	49	54
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2014/15 season)

Web links

• Ryan Potulny at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Ryan Potulny at hockeydb.com (English)
• Ryan Potulny at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ryan Potulny signs with the Hartford Wolf Pack . blueseatblogs.com. August 7, 2014. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
2. ^ Pelicans announce latest acquisition ( Finnish ) pelicans.fi. June 11, 2015. Archived from the original on June 14, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 12, 2015.